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thirteenrocks) wrote2005-11-13 07:03 pm
thirteenrocks) wrote2005-11-13 07:03 pm
That Black Suit
Dad and I went to Dubuque, to JC Penny to pick out a suit.
SOmething sharp, Black, and conservative. Mom picked it up. It was my first real suit, bought for the purpose of interviewing at Mayo Clinic-5 years ago, today.
I wore it to Grandma Thiedes funeral, to her husbans funeral, to weddings, pageant interviews, to Heather's wedding in New Orleans, to my interview at Wal-mart, to My interview for the IV service. Its been dry-cleaned, pressed, and worn with every color of shirt imaginable.
Wore it to Mary's wedding this weekend, with a purple shirt and matching tie. One of only 2 suits I own. The other: Gap suit, grey wool pin-stripe.
And while I wore it for yet another time, it dawned on me, quite suddenly. If I die in the next year, kill over-dead. The powers at be will go into my house. Sort through my belongings. Read my journals. Go through my closet--
and find in that JC penny grey bag-my black suit. GIve it to the undertaker,
and when I am six feet under, in a pine box-I'll be in that Black suit.
SOmething sharp, Black, and conservative. Mom picked it up. It was my first real suit, bought for the purpose of interviewing at Mayo Clinic-5 years ago, today.
I wore it to Grandma Thiedes funeral, to her husbans funeral, to weddings, pageant interviews, to Heather's wedding in New Orleans, to my interview at Wal-mart, to My interview for the IV service. Its been dry-cleaned, pressed, and worn with every color of shirt imaginable.
Wore it to Mary's wedding this weekend, with a purple shirt and matching tie. One of only 2 suits I own. The other: Gap suit, grey wool pin-stripe.
And while I wore it for yet another time, it dawned on me, quite suddenly. If I die in the next year, kill over-dead. The powers at be will go into my house. Sort through my belongings. Read my journals. Go through my closet--
and find in that JC penny grey bag-my black suit. GIve it to the undertaker,
and when I am six feet under, in a pine box-I'll be in that Black suit.